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The Twelve Dancing Princesses
Twelve princesses, each possessing riches, grace, powerand dignity. Yet despite the sisters' charmed lives—anddespite the handsome men who desire them—they arewoefully unfulfilled, frustrated and aching for somethingmore. As a powerful wizardess helps to solve the riddleof their discontent, each princess discovers creative—and naughty —ways to satisfy her passionate cravingsand desperate needs.
320 pages, Trade Paperback
First published September 1, 2007
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Nancy Madore
20 books162 followersNancy Madore achieved enormous critical acclaim with her ENCHANTED series, which includes ENCHANTED, ENCHANTED AGAIN and ENCHANTED DREAMS.
Now, following her life-long interest in ancient history and mythology, Nancy Madore is launching a new series in the historical and science/speculative fiction genres, called LEGACY OF THE WATCHERS. So far, the series includes THE HIDDEN ONES and POWER OF GODS. Madore is currently working on the third book in the series.
You can read more about Nancy Madore's LEGACY OF THE WATCHERS series by visiting her website at www.nmadore.com.
Now, following her life-long interest in ancient history and mythology, Nancy Madore is launching a new series in the historical and science/speculative fiction genres, called LEGACY OF THE WATCHERS. So far, the series includes THE HIDDEN ONES and POWER OF GODS. Madore is currently working on the third book in the series.
You can read more about Nancy Madore's LEGACY OF THE WATCHERS series by visiting her website at www.nmadore.com.
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January 25, 2009
A king is puzzled that his twelve married daughters wake up each morning to find that their shoes have been completely worn out while they sleep. Several people have stepped forward trying to solve the mystery, yet no one has been able to. A wizardess comes through with an intriguing, yet seemingly impossible, answer. The king challenges her to prove her findings and to cure the reasons behind it, and the wizardess accepts the challenge and pays each princess a separate visit.
What started off as an intriguing and fanciful idea soon fell flat for me. Each short tale was eerily similar to the one before it. Each of the twelve princesses basically has the same problem, lack of communication with their spouses that has caused some sort of sexual and/or emotional issues. Yet the wizardess finds twelve imaginative, different and entertaining ways to fix their problems within seconds of meeting each couple. The couples come together, sexually, in what sometimes reads as a how-to guide for the sexually and/or emotionally inept.
While I found the sexcapades were delicious and appealing to many different moods and appetites, the end of the book takes a turn for the worse with some of the deeds. One of the men actually beats his wife on the arse with a belt. Yes, I am aware that many people enjoy this sort of thing. My problem was with the malice behind the act rather than the act itself. Another husband resorts to electrically shocking his wife when she steps out of line as some sort of behavioral modification tool, I wanted to punch him.
Had I not known that this book was written by a woman I would have assumed it was penned by a recently divorced and severely embittered man. Each princess personifies and magnifies a negative stereotype associated with women. For example you have an angry feminist, the wife who has ‘let herself go’, the prude, the martyr, the shrew, the woman who uses sex to get material things, etc. It was hard to fully enjoy the acts of intimacy when the characters were so unlikable. All in all I found the idea behind the stories and the humor behind each princess’s names far more interesting than the actual execution of those stories.
Cherise Everhard, January 2009
What started off as an intriguing and fanciful idea soon fell flat for me. Each short tale was eerily similar to the one before it. Each of the twelve princesses basically has the same problem, lack of communication with their spouses that has caused some sort of sexual and/or emotional issues. Yet the wizardess finds twelve imaginative, different and entertaining ways to fix their problems within seconds of meeting each couple. The couples come together, sexually, in what sometimes reads as a how-to guide for the sexually and/or emotionally inept.
While I found the sexcapades were delicious and appealing to many different moods and appetites, the end of the book takes a turn for the worse with some of the deeds. One of the men actually beats his wife on the arse with a belt. Yes, I am aware that many people enjoy this sort of thing. My problem was with the malice behind the act rather than the act itself. Another husband resorts to electrically shocking his wife when she steps out of line as some sort of behavioral modification tool, I wanted to punch him.
Had I not known that this book was written by a woman I would have assumed it was penned by a recently divorced and severely embittered man. Each princess personifies and magnifies a negative stereotype associated with women. For example you have an angry feminist, the wife who has ‘let herself go’, the prude, the martyr, the shrew, the woman who uses sex to get material things, etc. It was hard to fully enjoy the acts of intimacy when the characters were so unlikable. All in all I found the idea behind the stories and the humor behind each princess’s names far more interesting than the actual execution of those stories.
Cherise Everhard, January 2009
May 5, 2008
What a good book. I would think this would be a good selection for women who read lots of erotica and women who have never read it before. If you have a problem with your lover/spouse/whatever, its in here. I loved that each story centered around a intimacy problem that the two people involved worked together to fix. There are some really good ideas for spicing up a relationship in here. Even though I don't really have problems with my boyfriend, there were things in here I could relate too. The book has ideas for women who feel self conscious, or not satisfied, or who have religious issues. Its all in here! And best of all it is not boring preaching about do this or do that. There are twelve stories that are all fun to read as you are learning. Even men should read this book to better understand women.
June 9, 2010
What a load of cobblers. Twelve sexist tales, morals of married sexual life thinly veiled as erotica. It's the Twelve dancing princesses all growed up, and living dissatisfied married lives, waiting for their magical marriage counsellor to arrive and present them with an instantaneous diagnosis and cure. Each chapter dedicated to a couple and named after the princess in question and each princesses name a white trash sounding made-up name that attempted to sound like the problem she had ie Princess Inertia - guess what, she had no motivation!! And, without fail, it was never a problem that the husbands had, it was always the woman that had issues. And couldn't communicate these to her husband. Grrr.
December 5, 2007
The reason I decided to read this book is because it was labeled as "erotica for women by a woman." I had read reviews saying it was great, generally, as erotica, but also intriguing as that it explored general issues "real" women experience in that department. SO I picked it up...and I'm glad I did. It was a fun read. I'm looking forward to reading her other tales.
July 3, 2008
Fabulous fairy tale about 12 princesses named after their own unhappiness who each break through their difficulties in an erotic way. This book made me blush, laugh out loud, and think all at the same time.
February 20, 2012
4 Stars! ~ Once upon a time, there was a King who had no sons but twelve beautiful daughters and his Royal castle was always filled with joy. As the Princesses grew up, they each in turn married their own Prince. It has come to the King’s attention that the Kingdom is having trouble keeping the Princesses in new shoes, as it seems all twelve wear out a pair of shoes every day. This is a strange mystery. When the Princesses go to sleep at night, the shoes worn that day are fine with little wear, but in the morning they are shredded as if the Princesses had been up all night dancing. So the King announces that he will reward anyone who can discover the reason for this bazaar occurrence and can provide a cure. After several have failed, a Wizardess approaches the King, and explains that this strange phenomenon is because the Princesses are discontent, and that if she can spend some time with each Princess she can find their problem and enact a cure. The King agrees. The Wizardess visits each Princess and her Prince in their home, and usually within moments she discovers the reason for the Princess’ discontent and provides a remedy, sometimes using a magic aid, but always with instructions that must be followed completely. To the amazement of the Princesses and their Princes, the Princesses no longer awoke with torn and worn shoes.
These are all written from the point of view that each Princess is very much in love with her Prince but there seems to be something missing in their marriages. I really liked how Ms. Madore made the journey of discovery for each couple so very natural, romantic and erotic. Within each story, there is some advice or lesson to be learnt, reinforcing that usually for a woman to feel desire she must also feel desirable, and that women can take control of their sexuality and expect more. If you are expecting inferno hard-core erotica, you will not find that here; the love scenes in this book are explicit but all very tastefully written.
These are all written from the point of view that each Princess is very much in love with her Prince but there seems to be something missing in their marriages. I really liked how Ms. Madore made the journey of discovery for each couple so very natural, romantic and erotic. Within each story, there is some advice or lesson to be learnt, reinforcing that usually for a woman to feel desire she must also feel desirable, and that women can take control of their sexuality and expect more. If you are expecting inferno hard-core erotica, you will not find that here; the love scenes in this book are explicit but all very tastefully written.
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August 16, 2015
I remember reading excerpts of this book aloud by candlelight in the hallway of my sorority house in college during a blackout. Definitely spicy enough to make a houseful of co-eds giggle and blush.
September 5, 2021
DNF
I enjoyed it up mostly until Doitalla's chapter and it went down from there.
Look, I'm all for safe, sane, and consensual. I'm all for dark romance. I'm all for using fiction as a way to safely engage in kinky, f-ed up fantasies. But some of the chapters didn't read like that to me. They read as abuse masquerading as an outdated feminist theory. Like how is a husband coercing his wife into sex and saying "this is what i got married for not for you to run my life" supposed to fix any problems? How is that supposed to fit into the supposedly feminist framework of the book?
Then the next chapter features a wife who in the past was SA'd by someone else, and her husband practically mansplains how she should feel about it, she gets mad, they fight, but then they have sex so everything is magically okay and all their marital problems are solved. What the fuck??
Also loved the little dash of fatphobia in devotia's chapter /s
I enjoyed it up mostly until Doitalla's chapter and it went down from there.
Look, I'm all for safe, sane, and consensual. I'm all for dark romance. I'm all for using fiction as a way to safely engage in kinky, f-ed up fantasies. But some of the chapters didn't read like that to me. They read as abuse masquerading as an outdated feminist theory. Like how is a husband coercing his wife into sex and saying "this is what i got married for not for you to run my life" supposed to fix any problems? How is that supposed to fit into the supposedly feminist framework of the book?
Then the next chapter features a wife who in the past was SA'd by someone else, and her husband practically mansplains how she should feel about it, she gets mad, they fight, but then they have sex so everything is magically okay and all their marital problems are solved. What the fuck??
Also loved the little dash of fatphobia in devotia's chapter /s
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 13, 2021
Loved it.
August 16, 2013
Well first things first this is one of my all time favorite fairy tales because of the great but under-hyped Faerie Tale Theatre. I work in a library that did not have this so I requested it from outside of the state. So for 2 years everyone in the library system will know I read this smut.
This book started out fairly promising 12 sisters shoes are worn out every morning from coming and dancing in their father's palace every night - in spirit form - that is where it gets weird. A wizardess comes to sit with them and within a few moments and sometimes just by glancing she can tell what is wrong with each couple - if that isn't easy enough she also names each of the princesses after their problems. Toilla was probably the worst in my opinion name wise, however story wise the whole thing put a bad taste in my mouth. We are supposed to believe that the biggest problem these women have is that they are bored sexually? I'm not buying it.
Also the bordering on abuse to women was what made me almost put this book down permenantly but since I got it from out of state and technically paid for it I thought I should finish it. The abuse I'm referring to is one of the wives being belted - yeah I know some people like this but it was done in an aggressive way to assuage his anger not because he wanted to sexually please his wife. The other abuse is the last story where the wife trades sex for gifts - I guess we've forgotten that women were traded for sheep or other livestock back in the day for marriage but anyways lets play along so the wizardess - a real b**** if you ask me - prescribes an electric eel for placement -inside- and gives a ring to the husband to use whenever he feels like it to inflict pain on his wife.
Overall don't waste your time her book enchanted is much better if you are looking for that kind of thing.
This book started out fairly promising 12 sisters shoes are worn out every morning from coming and dancing in their father's palace every night - in spirit form - that is where it gets weird. A wizardess comes to sit with them and within a few moments and sometimes just by glancing she can tell what is wrong with each couple - if that isn't easy enough she also names each of the princesses after their problems. Toilla was probably the worst in my opinion name wise, however story wise the whole thing put a bad taste in my mouth. We are supposed to believe that the biggest problem these women have is that they are bored sexually? I'm not buying it.
Also the bordering on abuse to women was what made me almost put this book down permenantly but since I got it from out of state and technically paid for it I thought I should finish it. The abuse I'm referring to is one of the wives being belted - yeah I know some people like this but it was done in an aggressive way to assuage his anger not because he wanted to sexually please his wife. The other abuse is the last story where the wife trades sex for gifts - I guess we've forgotten that women were traded for sheep or other livestock back in the day for marriage but anyways lets play along so the wizardess - a real b**** if you ask me - prescribes an electric eel for placement -inside- and gives a ring to the husband to use whenever he feels like it to inflict pain on his wife.
Overall don't waste your time her book enchanted is much better if you are looking for that kind of thing.
April 15, 2016
It was a fun read with the story of the twelve princess and their husband. Each of the princess had their own problems and unfulfilled desires that made their shoes worn out every night. A wizardess passing by had heard of the problem and the reward made her choice to solve the princesses problem. I actually like that each of the princess had their own story and the fact that we could read both the princesses and their husbands pov and the wizardess. I also like the how in the end the we could read what happen to the wizardess and the king. It was a fun read. It was actually weird that the princess were living normal and simple lives and some of them don't have a servant and that they are married to a normal person from their kingdom. It was weird and I wonder who would be the next king that would rule the kingdom.
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January 23, 2017
This has been sitting on my bookshelf for quite a while and I finally decided to read it. I was pleasantly surprised by how much I got into it. I can relate to the plight of the poor princesses who often suffer in silence while hoping to somehow find physical satisfaction from their husbands. Having a powerful wizardess around certainly helps to get things going. Of course, this also has a particularly nice bonus for the wizardess herself. I used to read these types of books when I was in my early 20s, but now that I am in my early 30s I feel that I can appreciate them even more. I can't wait to check out the other books from this author.
September 23, 2011
I was excited to start this book, the beginning was promising but by the fifth story it was monotonous.
But that's obviously not why I read it >.< I wanted and expected some steamy sex scenes and there was none, atleast not by my standards. It was too PG13 and/or just weird (the pig/mud scene) WTF???
So I think I will be swapping this along with the auhor's Enchanted series if those are the same.
But that's obviously not why I read it >.< I wanted and expected some steamy sex scenes and there was none, atleast not by my standards. It was too PG13 and/or just weird (the pig/mud scene) WTF???
So I think I will be swapping this along with the auhor's Enchanted series if those are the same.
December 22, 2010
Another erotica book with a fairy tale theme. What more could I ask for?! I loved this book because it deals with the 12 princesses and their husbands. They princesses are restless and unhappy and its up to a wizardress to figure out why. On a side note, if you like this book check out Nancy Madore's other fairy tale erotica books. They are great too!
January 3, 2011
Another erotica book with a fairy tale theme. What more could I ask for?! I loved this book because it deals with the 12 princesses and their husbands. They princesses are restless and unhappy and its up to a wizardress to figure out why. On a side note, if you like this book check out Nancy Madore's other fairy tale erotica books. They are great too!
May 11, 2009
Thinly veiled depictions of the biggest sexual gripes. All the sisters are up at night, dancing their shoes off because something is wrong with their relationship or sex life. I wouldn't recommend reading it all the way through, but having it near your bed to read on occasion.
October 21, 2007
I don't usually read or like erotica, but this was more psychological and romantic than I expected, and really well-written. I'll definitely try her other book.
March 30, 2008
This was fantastic! Really different. I have to find more from this author.
April 26, 2008
Sexy, interesting not bad.
November 3, 2008
I was very disappointed in this book, have read other works by Madore and this was not her best. The relationships were vague, and the intimate scenes left a lot to be desired.
March 3, 2012
inspiring and conjugally helpful!!!
July 19, 2012
She had been following the advice of charlatans, who had the impertinence to speak for their own creator.
October 16, 2014
The book is a little tame sexually speaking but I always enjoy Madore’s unique and insightful infusion of feminist theory into the erotic genre.
October 2, 2014
One of my favorite romantic selections of all time and that's saying something as i have read A LOT of aforementioned romantic selections.
August 3, 2016
2,5 *
Lo siento, no me atrapó :(
Lo siento, no me atrapó :(
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